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Jan 16

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Llandegla Jan 2010

To anyone with sense the weather of the past couple of weeks was the perfect time to get on with those tasks which have to be done with the bike off the road; servicing, repairs, renovations and similar tasks.

How do we fair in this country when the conditions deteriorate? Not very well it seems – the roads haven’t been gritted anywhere near enough and the roads are sheets of compacted ice and where the ice has melted loads of deep potholes. (more…)

Feb 3

Road Salt – The Silent Killer

A gritter spreading it's deadly contents

It is about time that this weather went away and the council stopped gritting the roads with that ‘horrible stuff’ they use now.

The gritter-wagons seem to be spreading a new type of salt that sets just like concrete if you give it a chance to dry on your bike. Even when still wet it seems to have the consistency of jelly and does not want to wash off the bike, or the car.
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